Thu, September 18, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am

Building a Positive Community with Teens – Part Two – VIRTUAL

Participants are REQUIRED TO ATTEND ALL TRAININGS in the series and create and try out tailored activities in between trainings.

Part 1 – Building Positive Community with Teens – Laying the Foundation

Part 2 – Building Positive Community with Teens – Meaningful Relationships

To learn, stay engaged, and develop as individuals, teens need a safe, predictable, joyful, and inclusive space where they can experience belonging, significance and emotional safety. They also need to feel comfortable taking risks and working with their peers. How can you create such a space for the teens you work with? This lively training series explores the environment in which you work with youth and provides strategies, fun group activities, and relationship-building meeting structures that will help you establish a community that promotes positive experiences for teens.

Please note: Only afterschool practitioners working with middle school, high school, or fifth grade elementary youth should register for this training. 

Building Positive Community with Teens – Laying the Foundation – Part 1

Training Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Discuss the importance of belonging, significance and emotional safety for youth
  2. Outline the methods involved in establishing a positive community
  3. Utilize interactive learning structures and brain breaks that provide opportunities for youth to feel a sense of belonging and significance

Building Positive Community with Teens – Meaningful Relationships – Part 2

Training Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Explain the Responsive Advisory Meeting structure.
  2. Practice developing Responsive Advisory Meetings as a way to help youth build positive relationships.